This is my first attempt at using the SoundCloud to put audio into the blog. I wanted to see how labor intensive it is, as well as how the various players render. This is the Flash player: Pan flute buskers at Gustav Adolfs Torg, Malmö, Sweden by shazzerspeak I recorded these guys playing on one …
Category Archive: Just the Journal
May
12
2012
Apr
24
2012
Somebody needs to make me this …
I’ve got a milestone birthday coming up on July 4. The Swede probably ought to get started NOW.
Apr
19
2012
Reason No. 347 why I love in the internet
I don’t know much about “the dance” but I have always had a healthy appreciation for people who can move. Plus my oldest niece was part of a competitive dance team in high school, so I tend to “tune-in” whenever I come across something potentially interesting on the dance-front. When this video of gravity-defying dub-stepper …
Apr
17
2012
Under-appreciated breakfast art
Because the Ph.D postal worker’s “day at the office” starts WAY earlier than mine, we don’t see much of each other on work-day mornings. I’m rarely out of bed before she leaves (often before 5 a.m.) unless I happen to be heading to the gym (and that’s a really big IF), in which case we …
Apr
13
2012
These BLT-flavored chips are commanding me to find them
I haven’t seen these in Sweden yet, but THEY WILL BE MINE.
Apr
07
2012
Frozen Easter Weekend
When I was a kid, the Easter Bunny always left a large, high-quality solid milk chocolate rabbit in our Easter baskets. In fact, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I can blame my lifelong obsession with chocolate squarely on this particular family tradition. As the chocolate bunny was by far my favorite …
May
05
2012
What I’ve learned from 3 episodes of “Oprah Behind the Scenes”
I realize that I’m WAY late to this particular party, but the “behind he scenes” look at the production of Oprah Winfrey’s final season in 2011 has just now started airing in Sweden. Having worked in for a time in the broadcast industry, I have kind of a built-in appreciation for the hard work that …
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